You should probably also mention that League of Legends will be free on release. The 29.99 Collector's Edition only gets you access to some 20 champions right away that are simply unlocked by playing the game and some riot store points although they have stated that nothing in the Riot Store will affect gameplay. Its all cosmetic stuff or unlocking champions earlier.

you forgot to mention that DOTA even has better variety of items and also every version is something new

Variety of item depends on how you look at them. Dota has a lot of items, but they have been created over the years. For a game just starting out, you have to assume it won't have as many.

As for something new every version, that would be every patch, which LoL and HoN do as well. Sometimes the patches are hotfixes or improvements to the game, so just because it doesn't have a new hero or new items every version doesn't mean it isn't a valuable patch.

yeah i ve played dota hon and lol .. i think that HoN is the best. why ? there is no problem with patching HoN but if u want play LoL after patching u cannot beacouse patch make problem with downloading. thats why u must download stand alone game every tiem when they make patch. sad isnt it ? with HoN there is no such a problem.

yeah i ve played dota hon and lol .. i think that HoN is the best. why ? there is no problem with patching HoN but if u want play LoL after patching u cannot beacouse patch make problem with downloading. thats why u must download stand alone game every tiem when they make patch. sad isnt it ? with HoN there is no such a problem.

There isn't a problem with league of legends either... It takes approximately the same time to patch league of legends and HoN, except that League of legends has a regular cycle where it releases a new hero about every 3 weeks. Why do you think they are making you download the full game every time...?

On another note... as of now I have taken my preference with League of Legends. Since the initial launch, I have been happily amazed with their ability as a company to create a much better community than that of Dota and HoN. They are continually releasing new content (as I said in my above post a new hero about every three weeks), all for a cost of... free. They are constantly balancing the game to the point where no hero is unplayable, and even the "worst" of heroes I've seen dominate in a game. They have made the learning curve much easier than HoN or Dota ever wa by adding a guided battle system to teach new players which includes teaching positioning to avoid being ganked. Riot Games continues to surprise me with their dedication to the community and improving it all while making a solid game that has been a ton of fun for me and my friends to play. I applaud your efforts Riot Games.

HoN on the other hand has realised that LoL has been successful, and due to their success they created a new version of HoN named HoN 2.0 which includes a new mode "casual mode" which is roughly the same mechanics as league of legends. This alone tells me a lot...

I wanted to add that LoL has got a terrible community as well. The game is great, I really like it; but the community is seriously bad. A bunch of kids cursing at you everytime something goes wrong. You die, your team starts swearing at you. One of your teammembers die, then it is your fault as well - get your b*tching. You kill someone, they throw some curse words at you. They kill you, youre a noob and they insult you as well. And I am a good player! Poor guys that dont do well.

naa, i have played HoN and LoL and i think that LoL is better, cuz league of legends is mor like a happy game with colors and more but HoN is more a darker and a harder game to under stand. this is a video that i recomend 4 the diffrence of the games: